Ben Fairless
Joined Right to Know in 2013
I work for the OpenAustralia Foundation. I used to use this account when I was administering the site however now I use this account just to make requests and to provide suggestions to people.
All my requests are made in a personal capacity, and not on behalf of Right to Know, the OpenAustralia Foundation, or any other organisation unless specifically indicated.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 489) (page 10)
Communciations related to Right to Know
Response by Australian Taxation Office to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
Dear FOI Applicant,
Please see attachment.
Yours faithfully,
FOI Team
Dear Applicant,
A notice regarding your FOI request is located...
Use of janusSEAL and Correspondence around same
Response by Department of Home Affairs to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Our references: FA 16/11/00189-R1; ADF2016/65920
Dear Mr Fairless
I refer to your application for an Internal Review receive...
Failure of ICT systems
Awaiting internal review.
The latest reply from the ATO says, "On 23 June 2017, you were issued a notice of intention to refuse your FOI request as a ‘practical
refusal reason’...
Ridiculous calculation of charges that have no legitimate basis in fact, but are a thinly guised attempt to unlawfully frustrate access, are unfortunat...
Applying a full s 47C - Deliberative Matter exemption on a document relating to a policy on administrative access to AFP documents only makes sense if...
Customers recording interactions 104-07020060
Waiting clarification.
This comment is a repetition, in part, of a comment I made here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ministerial_briefing_for_alan_tu#comment-1779...
Dear Mr Fairless,
The information you have requested is available on our website at
[1]https://www.ato.gov.au/assets/0/104/997/1030/543d6162-0b09...
Requests made via Right to Know
Follow up sent to Australian Taxation Office by Ben Fairless on .
Awaiting internal review.
I do not consent to withdraw the request. I seek information up to the date of the recent OAIC decision which I don't believe has been released....
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by South Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Defence to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
UNCLASSIFIED
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
I refer to your email dated 19 October 2016 where you sought access to
inbound and outbound chats sent to...
Average Hold Data for 2016
Refused.
I don't think the Department is correct here.
23 hours seems excessive to write a SQL script to dump aggregated records from a database, let alone to...
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly, much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Queensland Police Service to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Good Afternoon Mr Fairless
You have not provided a telephone number to respond to, hence I am replying my email.
Information on how to apply for inf...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Western Australia Police to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Good afternoon Ben
WA Police does not have any internal guidelines or procedures on what information can be released without a formal access applicati...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Tasmania Police to Ben Fairless on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Information relating to your query can be found at police.tas.gov.au >
Information Disclosure.
Regards,
John D...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by Victoria Police to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless
I should explain that the role of the Freedom of Information Division for Victoria Police is to receive and process requests made und...
Administrative/Informal access Arrangements
Response by NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Good morning Ben,
I refer you to our website, see below link:
http://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/Access-to-information.aspx
I hope this is of assistance to yo...
Administrative Access Arrangements
Information not held.
Hi Locutus,
I don't think the department is saying they can't find anything. It looks more like, to me anyway, that they are saying 'which administra...
Centrelink New Data Matching System
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your email.
The department is under an obligation to protect the identity of third parties to be consulted under sect...
Law Enforcement Requests - Uber
Follow up sent to Australian Federal Police by Ben Fairless on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Please consider this request withdrawn.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Fairless
Documents from Telstra to Contact Centre Management
Response by Services Australia to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see attached correspondence in relation to your freedom of
information request.
Regards,
FOI Legal Team
F...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Children's Television Foundation to Ben Fairless on .
Information not held.
Dear Ben
Apologies for the delay in responding to your request. It seems that your email was misdirected internally and I have only come across it tod...
Dear Mr Fairless,
To Clarify:
No formal delegations have been issued by the head of the agency under Freedom of Information Legislation.
Kind Regard...
Request for mobile communications via mobile applications
Response by Minister for Education to Ben Fairless on .
Refused.
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI Request.
Regards,
Office of Senator the Hon Simon...
FOI Delegations - 2016
Response by Australian Grape and Wine Authority to Ben Fairless on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Fairless,
Freedom of Information Request Number – AGWA051216
I refer to your recent request for access to documents under the Freedom...
This person's 341 annotations (page 10)
Anti-discrimination in Recruitment
Request to Department of Education, Skills and Employment by Julie Bingo. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
Julie, I absolutely agree with you, however from experience I've noticed that agencies are reluctant to respond to informal requests for information, i...
Newman's pension for life
Partially successful.
Alex helped build Right to Know: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/credits#thanks
For the first part of your request, it's clear from news reports...
Anti-discrimination in Recruitment
Request to Department of Education, Skills and Employment by Julie Bingo. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Waiting clarification.
While the Department isn't restricted from answering your questions, generally "Freedom of Information" or FOI laws only apply to actual documents, not...
Newman's pension for life
Partially successful.
Hi Julie,
I'm not sure that the Department of the Treasury will be able to help you out here, as they generally deal with Federal matters and not Sta...
You should ask the department to send emails in plain text.
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Successful.
No further annotations will be allowed on this request, and I've hidden annotations made after my post which don't comply with our rules. If you have a...
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Successful.
Everyone,
Please don't forget about our policy on annotations:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/help/requesting#moderation
I will allow the annotati...
Current 8 Month Census
Partially successful.
Hi, you can find the email address to contact the FOI Team of the ABS outside of Right to Know here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/abs/view_email...
Suspected breaches of the APS Code of Conduct by staff in certain Centrelink Service Centres
Long overdue.
8 minutes per page (10.5hrs for 74 pages). That sounds a bit steep in my opinion.
Using the Australian Government Solicitor calculator (a copy was po...
I've sent the below to the FOI Team:
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Hi FOI Team,
Regarding the below request, Vera Lystich (a Right to Know user) has asked me to get b...
Trade Agreements
Refused.
I can confirm that Right to Know successfully delivered the email to DFAT on July 16th 2014, which was accepted by the Department's Mail server.
Australia's Worst White-Collar Crime
Request to Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions by Phillip Sweeney. Annotated by Ben Fairless on .
Long overdue.
Hi Philip, to make it easier for regular users of the site, would it be possible for you to consider using a more descriptive title for each request?...
I have sent the below email to the FOI Team at the Department:
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My Name is Ben Fairless, and I volunteer with Right to Know. I wanted to get...
Vera, would you be ok with Right to Know contacting the department to offer them an upload link, or the postal address of Right to Know (then we can up...
Surely they can upload the video via email, or upload it to the RTK website (the department can contact Right To Know via contact@righttoknow.org.au fo...
Thanks for the offer of support, at the moment I wouldn't want to pursue the matter any further.
That said, just because my request was refused does...
Request for School Contact Details
Information not held.
Sorry for the confusion, but we've been advised Education Services Australia isn't formally subject to FOI. I've updated the information page to reflec...
Liberal Democratic Party
Long overdue.
Hi Vera,
The first email was hidden at the request of the AEC as it contained an attachment intended for someone else, and the attachment contained t...
In a nutshell, the charge amount was upheld and I withdrew the application.
The Entrance NSW 2261
Information not held.
Hi Tony,
The Minister for Tourism no longer exists I'm afraid.
When I go to www.tourism.gov.au I'm redirected to the Australian Trade Commission. Y...
Visit to Rome with Christopher Pyne
Partially successful.
Hi Jackson, it looks like the Department need payment in order for the remaining documents to be released. Have you made a payment or decided not to pu...
Cancellation of an ABN
Information not held.
It still doesn't change the fact that an FOI request for "documents in the possession of the ATO that would confirm that Section 11 of the FOI Act does...
Cancellation of an ABN
Information not held.
Your argument does not change the law. Laws aren't always fair, but the FOI process is designed to obtain information, not change the law.
even if t...
Cancellation of an ABN
Information not held.
The decision that Phillip refers to is here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/825/response/2911/attach/2/20150108%20Decision%20letter.pdf
The o...
Death of Ben Zygier a.k.a Ben Alon or Ben Allen cell number 15, an the gag order ruled in June 2010.
Long overdue.
Hi Jamie, has the public information the Department released resolved your request?